Politics | Farmworkers Rights

2010-03-16: Headlines

Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times March 16 Letters from our readers 2010-03-16
In this recession, the plea may be to pass the bond indebtedness based on future jobs for farm workers and the building trades to construct a tunnel ...
Latin American Herald Tribune: Cuba Closes More Than 100 State-Run Agricultural Firms 2010-03-16
... to “eliminate no fewer than 100 companies that are unsustainable in the current economic situation,” and to “relocate” more than 40000 farm workers.
AllAfrica.com: South Africa: Farmers Warned as River Valley Fever Claims Two Lives 2010-03-16
The institute said two farm workers had died in the Free State. A total of 22 infections were confirmed in the Free State and Northern Cape.
San Francisco Chronicle: Let the Eagle Fly 2010-03-16
It traces Chavez's life from his childhood, as the son of migrant farm workers in the Great Depression, through his founding of the farm workers union ...
Meattradenewsdaily: South Africa - Minister of Police on farm attacks 2010-03-16
In particular, farmers, farm workers and residents within rural communities are considered soft targets of such criminals. Between 1997 and 2007 there ...
Public Radio International PRI: Farmers demand immigration reform 2010-03-16
A newspaper cartoon above lobbyist Craig Regelbrugge's desk shows farm workers harvesting lettuce. Two guys wearing American flags on their shirts shout ...
Leagle.com: DERMER v. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY 2010-03-16
United Farm Workers Nat'l Union, 442 US 289, 297 (1979); see Bowen v. First Family Fin. Servs., Inc., 233 F.3d 1331, 1339-40 (11th Cir. 2000).
Calgary Herald: Farm safety funds not enough, union says 2010-03-16
Eric Musekamp of the Farmworkers Union of Alberta made the comments in reaction to an announcement Monday by Alberta's agriculture minister that $715000 ...
San Jose Mercury News: Theater review: Tuning in to 'Sunsets and Margaritas' 2010-03-16
Politics are further involved as somewhere offstage immigrants are marching for their rights. And, key to the story, Gregario was raised to be "a macho," ...
Dispatch Online: Local authority ignores lifetime right to land 2010-03-16
LEGALLY-binding documents giving three faithful farm workers lifetime rights to a 10-hectare patch of land outside Port Alfred are still being ignored ...
Zimbabwe Telegraph: Foreign firms should not be pressured to give away shares; Workers should ... 2010-03-16
If the real goal of the land reform programme was to empower the indigenous Zimbabweans, it should have considered the farm workers, some of whom had worked ...
Financial Times: America needs to invest in jobs - and fast 2010-03-16
In terms of employment growth, it saw a decline of 0.8 per cent in the number of non-farm workers, compared with an average increase of 27 per cent in each ...
MLive.com: Senator Lugar Co-Sponsors Bill To Relieve Labor Crisis In Agriculture 2010-03-16
The Ag JOBS bill has been negotiated with growers and farm workers over more than a decade, Senator Feinstein added. It is good policy.
WMU News: Chavez day event to honor three local residents 2010-03-16
... conditions for migrant farm laborers and co-founded what is now the United Farm Workers of America, the nation's first successful farm workers union.
North Country Public Radio: Aubertine says farmworker bill could pass, with changes 2010-03-16
The New York State Senate is considering a controversial measure that would give more legal rights to New York farm workers. The bill would allow farm ...
9NEWS.com: Census workers go bilingual in hopes of counting everyone 2010-03-16
Valley-Wide Health Systems Outreach specialist Cindy Masias says many of the farm workers in Rocky Ford are documented. But, even they are leery of giving ...
Business Report: No land grab intended says rural development official 2010-03-16
DA MP Annette Steyn yesterday(Mon) rejected suggestions by the department that the option was aimed at ensuring land tenure for farm workers and demanded ...
The Namibian: It's time to give Namibia's domestic workers their due 2010-03-16
First, in 2003, the Government set and gazetted a minimum wage for farmworkers. This development came on the heels of the 1996 LAC-SSD report and ...

2010-03-15: Headlines

McClatchy Washington Bureau: Look for the Census forms in your mailboxes 2010-03-15
Centro has also recruited local unemployed farmworkers to serve in their own community as Census enumerators -- the people who knock on doors when form ...
News Hounds: Steve Doocy And Texas Board Of Education Right Winger, Cynthia Dunbar, Advance ... 2010-03-15
There will be no teaching about Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, because Dunbar's pals say she is a socialist.
AlterNet: An Outline of the Economic Problems in the History of the Soviet Union 2010-03-15
Prices for agricultural products were also systematically raised as a production incentive, with the aim of making farmworkers less dramatically behind ...
AllAfrica.com: South Africa: Rift Valley Fever Update - a Total of 21 Cases Have Been Confirmed 2010-03-15
The human cases are; farmers, veterinarians and farm workers. Additional suspect cases are currently being tested. Outbreak investigations by the Department ...
Firedoglake: 1000 Words About Zimbabwe 2010-03-15
She spoke about the current conditions for farm workers, many of whom are terribly exploited with few ways to adequately redress exploitation.
BBC News: Wembley Way built by German Prisoners of War 2010-03-15
At this time one in five farm workers in Britain were German POWs. Although the conditions they lived in were much better than those in other parts ...
San Francisco Chronicle: Nonfiction review: 'Working in the Shadows' 2010-03-15
After reading about a slaughterhouse that couldn't attract a stable US labor force, he conceives of a year of working among undocumented immigrant ...
Washington Post: Vermont dairy farmer talks about immigration probe 2010-03-15
... on undocumented foreign farm workers where Clement Gervais says he believed three of his workers cited as unemployable had proper documentation.
Yakima Herald-Republic: More 'Your Money' 2010-03-15
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic has named Glen Davis its director of operations. Davis has held the position on an interim basis since November and ...
SDNN: Sen. Kehoe: In light of Amber and Chelsea 2010-03-15
And by seeking better working conditions for farm workers, labor leader Dolores Huerta risked harm. The exemplary courage and poise each of them exhibited ...
Enterprise News: National movement against big banks comes to Brockton 2010-03-15
... campaigns influence powerful companies in the past, such as the grape boycott that helped to improve conditions for farm workers in the late 1960s.
Sowetan: Labour inspectors halt work at 'dangerous' potato farm 2010-03-15
The labour team also found that the farmer had disregarded the Basic Conditions of the Employment Act's Sectoral Determination for Farm Workers and w ...
News24: Malema must apologise, pay fine 2010-03-15
How many farm workers are killed every year around the country ? no one says anything ?Who sues the perpetrators...Its a fine line ma bru..butter the slice ...
The Wenatchee World Online: Activist urges Latinos to answer census 2010-03-15
Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers labor union, was in Wenatchee for an appearance sponsored by the US Census Bureau as part of its national ...
Politicsweb: ANC must ditch land nationalisation proposals - DA 2010-03-15
The fact is that two laws already exist to ensure that security of tenure of farm workers, namely the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) and ...
New York Times: For Philippine Family in Politics, Land Issue Hits Home 2010-03-15
Lito Bais, the head of the farm workers' union, said, “If that's true, then why isn't he doing that?” “I believe that as long as the Cojuangcos are here ...
Gaea Times: Lawsuit settlement means no more perfume, aftershave or other scents ... 2010-03-15
December 21st, 2009 Settlement reached in farmworkers' suit in Miss.OXFORD, Miss. — A lawsuit filed on behalf of 27 Mexican farm workers against ...
News24: RVF claims another life in FS 2010-03-15
The human cases were farmers, veterinarians and farm workers. Sefularo said additional suspect cases were currently being tested.
Shanghai Daily: No place in cities, no home on the range 2010-03-15
... decent life in cities, the "second generation" migrant farm workers are emerging in China and posing new challenges to the country's rapid urbanization.
Stockton Record: As pro anglers leave, Delta's focus turns to another bass 2010-03-15
He and his grandfather would get up at 4 am, walk downtown and hitch a ride on a bus taking farm workers into the Delta. "We had a hell of a time," Bank ...
Mmegi Online: Talking Musika 2010-03-15
He gives the labourer a wage, which he has a right to negotiate through the Farm Workers Union.The miner and the General Manager live in Jwaneng and Orap ...
Adweek: 'Ethical Eating' Goes Mainstream 2010-03-15
Women were also more apt than men to say it matters to them that farm workers and farm animals are treated humanely. "So in categories where women purchase ...
Abbotsford News: Reach needs submissions 2010-03-15
... Abbotsford needs help for its exhibition, From a Different Perspective, looking at the important but often under-appreciated role of farm workers.
Natchez Democrat: Wet winter weather plagues farmers 2010-03-15
Those wet conditions meant that, as farm workers were trying to get last year's crops out of the fields, they most likely had to leave significant rut ...
The Richmark Sentinel: “Stop Malema” campaign Alana Bailey 2010-03-15
Over and over again the black speakers for Malema talked about "Farmworkers who have been killed" and your representatives did NOT dispute this.
The Richmark Sentinel: “Stop Malema” campaign Alana Bailey 2010-03-15
Over and over again the black speakers for Malema talked about "Farmworkers who have been killed" and your representatives did NOT dispute this.
The Daily News Online: Priest celebrates his 'miracle' journey from Bolivia to Batavia 2010-03-15
Asked about his relief efforts with seasonal farm workers and in Bolivia, Trujillo just said he has some "special ministries." He has worked in Batavi ...
BuaNews Online: Title: Human cases of RVF confirmed 2010-03-15
The cases include farmers, veterinarians and farm workers, who had direct contact with RVF-infected livestock or linked to farms with confirmed RVF animal ...
Gaea Times: Vermont dairyman targeted in immigration probe says he thought workers ... 2010-03-15
The crackdown has shaken up dairy farmers, some of whom struggle to fill milking jobs and often rely on foreign farmworkers, who may have entered ...
El Paso Inc: FOR FAMILY IN POLITICS, LAND ISSUE HITS HOME 2010-03-15
The farm workers at Hacienda Luisita voted in favor of the stock and profit-sharing program in 1989. But because of the decline of the sugar industry ...

2010-03-14: Headlines

Fight Back! Newspaper: Colombian activist Liliany Obando's trial postponed again 2010-03-14
We fight for farm workers in defense of life, land and territory," explains one of the union's leaders. The union fights for farmers because they ...
Monthly Review: Zimbabwe's Land Reform Is Common Sense 2010-03-14
How can one account for the poverty and dislocation of many farm workers who lost their livelihoods once a farmer decided they were no longer needed ...
Huffington Post: Backstory: How The Texas Textbook Revision Came To Be 2010-03-14
"Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers of America, was removed in the third-grade standards because she's a socialist," the Texas Freedom ...
FarmersWeekly: Roofs collapsed by snow prompt design rethink in Scotland 2010-03-14
The implications of that are very serious for farmers and their families, farm workers and the general public. It's an issue that needs to be dealt ...
LubbockOnline.com: Lubbock Hispanics plan march to honor late civil rights activist Cesar E. Chavez 2010-03-14
Chavez was active in the latter half of the 20th century in organizing Mexican farmworkers. This year's Cesar E. Chavez Awards will be presented to Ernest ...
Los Angeles Times: Conn. legislative plan would forgive loans for students in 'green,' bioscience ... 2010-03-14
In Pennsylvania, an agriculture loan forgiveness program provided an average of $620 in loan forgiveness to 111 aspiring farm workers in 2009 ...
WTOP: Conn. would waive student loans in 'green' jobs 2010-03-14
In Pennsylvania, an agriculture loan forgiveness program provided an average of $620 in loan forgiveness to 111 aspiring farm workers in 2009 ...
Adweek: 'Ethical Eating' Goes Mainstream 2010-03-14
Women were also more apt than men to say it matters to them that farm workers and farm animals are treated humanely. "So in categories where women purchase ...
St. Augustine Record: Harvest of Hope draws big crowd 2010-03-14
... has played host to a three-day music event that benefits the Harvest of Hope foundation, a nonprofit group that raises money for migrant farm workers.
MPNnow.com: Legislation jeopardizes area farms 2010-03-14
If enacted, it would extend to farm workers benefits such as collective bargaining rights and the right to strike, as well as regulating hourly pay ...
Jakarta Globe: Indonesia's Neglected Govt Fish Farms Seek Private Investors 2010-03-14
“This used to be one of Suharto's favorite prawn farms,” said Nardi, one of the farm's workers, as he scattered feed into a pool.
Green Bay Press Gazette: Many lawmakers shy away from immigration issue 2010-03-14
The legislation would overhaul the agricultural foreign worker program and create a path to legalization for certain farm workers who are already here.
Pasadena Star-News: Monrovian pens story of con man's quest 2010-03-14
Miriam Pawel offers a fresh perspective in "The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement" (Bloomsbury Pre ...
Zim Online: German unionist decries state of workers' rights 2010-03-14
... to arrest her for releasing a video showing how President Robert Mugabe's supporters committed rights abuses and other crimes against farm workers.
Webnewswire.com: RiftI Valley Fever continues to spread in Free State 2010-03-14
The human cases are; farmers, veterinarians and farm workers. Additional suspect cases are currently being tested. Outbreak investigations by the Department ...
Arizona Daily Star: Morales, tireless fighter for the powerless, lost to community 2010-03-14
He continued his activism, working with the United Farm Workers on health issues and refugee resettlement. Andy, a teacher in the Amphi School District ...
Capitol News Connection: As Immigration Reform Stalls, Dairy Farmers Struggle 2010-03-14
A newspaper cartoon above lobbyist Craig Regelbrugge's desk shows farm workers harvesting lettuce. Two guys wearing American flags on their shirts shout ...
Fin24: 'Dangerous' potato farm closed 2010-03-14
The labour team also found that the farmer has disregarded the Basic Conditions of the Employment Act's Sectoral Determination for Farm Workers and w ...
India Business Blog: Prom cancellation prompts ACLU to file federal suit against MS school board 2010-03-14
The ACLU named the state of California in a lawsuit stating they fail to protect farm workers. California attorneys alert- The American.
Express Buzz: Welcome the increase in price of oil 2010-03-14
Farmers are able to pay higher wages to the farm workers. The main impact of increase in the price of oil, therefore, will be on urban upper classes ...

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